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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  CEO seems like an idiot and/or coward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good places/activities where a middle-aged man can new make friends?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  DND is tricky to recommend. On the one hand, as far as RPGs go it’s mega popular. On the other, it’s a very specific kind of game and rather finicky.

  Many people who don’t want to play fantasy dungeon crawling tactical combat would enjoy other genres, but finding those groups can be harder. One of my friends has no real interest in fantasy, but immediately was like “LET’S DO IT” when I mentioned a game of Vampire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good places/activities where a middle-aged man can new make friends?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The tabletop game meetup I know of (in New York) is explicitly friendly to new players. One of the hosts said their first game ever was at the meetup many years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I was hoping you would explain what you meant by “There’s not a reason to fight most enemies in most video games to be honest”. I don’t think that’s a true statement. I think most games do give reasons to fight enemies.

  I haven’t played enough BotW to really weigh in on it, specifically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s not a reason to fight most enemies in most video games to be honest.

  Hmmmm… that’s a thinker.

  In the older zeldas, you didn’t especially need to fight stuff on the overworld. I’d usually just run by, or kill the ones that were in my way.

  In most FromSoft games, you can run past enemies but that can quickly spiral out of control. Killing them gives you time to explore safely, on top of the XP rewarded.

  In shooters like Doom, you could probably run past most enemies, but they’ll keep attacking. Clearing them makes you safer.

  Monster hunter it’s the whole point of the game.

  What games are you thinking of where fighting is pointless? I don’t think it’s “most” games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2025 be vibin'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  despite a decade of experience, I can’t even get to the first round of interviews.

  I’ve had several places reject me without even a phone screen. My last job was the same role, the same tech stack, and I achieved the things they wrote about in the blurb. I just get back “we’re looking for someone more aligned with our needs”.

  What needs?? I check every box you put on the post!

  My friend thinks the jobs don’t exist, and they’re just posted so the company looks good. Or they’re some other fraud.

  I think that happens, but also there’s incompetence in the funnel. Recruiters can’t read, ai sucks, blah blah blah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I remember some doge goon asking online about using an LLM to parse JSON. Many people don’t understand things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition reveal trailer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Was this the one with the weirdest camera system I’ve ever encountered in a 3d game? I remember just constantly fighting with it.

  Also D&D 3e is not something I want to go back to. What a janky system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are you here and not on Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Privately owned centralized platforms like Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, etc, are a recipe for disaster. So I left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Read what you preach, jackass⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also the text says

  When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

  That’s not a metaphor. The camel thing was a colorful metaphor to demonstrate the point.

  That’s luke 18:22

  Most people who call themselves Christians do a piss poor job of it. Some of them then go “oh well I’ll be forgiven it’s okay”. That’s not really following the intent. That’s trying to take advantage of someone’s kindness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this "artist" on spotify AI generated?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Recommendations for…? Just any music?

  Caroline Rose’s new album is very good and very human: …bandcamp.com/…/year-of-the-slug

  Tagged as “alternative psychobilly acoustic guitar alt-country alternative pop art pop folk indie indie folk indie pop indiepop rock n roll shoegaze Los Angeles”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they thought about it very much. It’s like that spongebob meme where patrick has the wallet. Or the Friends one that I don’t know the name of the template. You could go point by point building up a case for why there should be government regulations, but as soon as you say like “regulation” they go “Nope bad”

  Though some people really do believe they as a rugged individual will be able to research and test all of their food without an FDA or whatever. If they buy bread that has sawdust in it, they’ll be able to tell, and somehow get a refund, or buy some other bread that doesn’t have sawdust. That seems like a lot of work and optimism compared to regulations and inspections by qualified professionals earlier in the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  enough people are like me that carrying guns should not be as easy as it is. We can trade counter anecdotes all we want, but I think the frequency of mass shootings and other gun violence in the US supports my position better than yours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The point of the anecdote was that when people get really mad, they don’t think rationally. If I had a gun, it would have been really easy in that moment to pull it out and use it. That’s too easy.

  (Though yes, I did briefly consider picking up his dog’s shit with a plastic bag of my own, and hitting him in the face with it, but by then I had cooled down enough to realize I didn’t want to potentially ruin my life by assaulting a guy on the street.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People over estimate how cool and collected they are.

  The other day some asshole was letting his dog shit on the sidewalk and not picking it up. I saw. He saw me see. We made eye contact. He called me a coward and walked away.

  In that moment I was emotionally ready to murder him. Just put his smug ass on the ground with his dog shit. Luckily, I don’t carry a gun so I just yelled at him. But if I had a gun on me? No way the scene would have gone better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bruh, chill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I was raising kids, I absolutely would not want to do it in the suburbs. It’s isolating and limiting. I was always so jealous of the kids I knew that lived in the city. They could do things. I was stuck indoors , or walking for like 90 minutes to get anywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bruh, chill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do not miss driving. Public transit forever.

  But when I did drive, after my reckless youth, I’d usually just chill in the right lane. I don’t care. Fly by at 120mph. I’ll be here going with the flow of traffic, or about the speed limit if I’m alone.

  I do remember one time in the suburbs when I was visiting my parents, I was driving to the grocery store. It’s a short drive (because it’s the suburbs, you can’t safely walk to the supermarket), no highways. About 10 minutes to get there from driveway to parking lot. Some guy behind me started absolutely losing his shit, screaming, and passed me dangerously by driving onto the shoulder. He pulled into the same parking lot. I parked well away from him because I didn’t want to deal with crazy.

  I’m not good at math, but if the entire trip was about 10 minutes, I feel like the time difference between me going about the speed limit and me speeding is, at most, what, 2 minutes? 5 minutes? The guy probably took more than 5 minutes off his life being so angry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nightclub market shrinking as younger people stay at home, says pub boss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I was going to say. It’s like that “no take only throw” meme with the dog. Capitalists want us to spend money, but they don’t want to pay us enough money. Just spend what we don’t have.

  If I had a nice job I’d be out spending a lot more money. But they want to replace everyone with AI, or off shore, or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring's player engagement is through the roof: 45% of its Steam players have played for 100+ hours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a good game. Not perfect, but very good.

  Even the things I don’t like are pretty minor.

  • upgrading weapons is kind of tedious. Once you know where the stones are or the bearings, it’s kind of a chore to get them.
  • related: once you know where some high value items are, it’s really tempting to just beeline for them from the start. But that’s kind of tedious. I guess I could just pretend I don’t know where the +5 stats talisman is.
  • a lot of side content isn’t especially rewarding. The first time you play it’s exciting because you don’t know what you’ll find. But later it’s like “nah, this catacomb has a useless ash and boss I’ll fight elsewhere”. Which is a shame because most of the level design is great.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring's player engagement is through the roof: 45% of its Steam players have played for 100+ hours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the reasons UBI games are trash

  I parsed that as “universal basic income games” and was really confused. Ubisoft makes more sense

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good cooperative shooters? Hidden gems?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I found the solo play of both Remnant games really unsatisfying. Slow pacing, uninteresting enemies. Is it much better with friends?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  no different than taking a bunch of books you bought second-hand and throwing them into a blender.

  They didn’t buy the books. They took them without permission.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They will accept any negative sum game, they will ruin their own livelihoods and their own lives, if only it helps sad little kings of sad little hills.

  I’m reminded of that book about Authoritarian Personality Types. They did like a model UN / Civilization game kind of thing, where the players represented different countries and could make decisions about policy, war, and so on. There were two groups. Unknown to the players, the people running this experiment put all the people who scored high for authoritarian personality in one group, and everyone else in the other group.

  The group with low authoritarian personality scores? Basically everything was fine. They solved the ozone layer crisis. They were solving world hunger. One guy tried to be a dick and the rest of the group brought him in line.

  The high authoritarian guys? Nuclear apocalypse. They made them sit in the dark for five minutes to think about what they’d done, and let them have a do-over. They still did a shit job. Petty squabbling. Stealing. Out of control climate crisis.

  I don’t think there’s an ethical way to do this in real life, but I do think if you just didn’t allow people with that kind of personality to have any real power, we’d all be much better off.

  It’s also possible i mangled the story because I rewrote it here from memory, but I believe it was in this book: theauthoritarians.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s still going to be production, and I don’t think we should continue with the capitalist class extracting value and making bad decisions

  If you introduce basic income without addressing that, you’ll still have all the enshittification

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basic income seems like an obvious solution.

  Many people would pursue happy lives. Do some art. Do some gardening.

  You’d also want to have like public housing or something so you don’t have parasitic landlords and homelessness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is the most “useful” thing a CEO typically does is schmooze with other rich assholes. A lot of companies need funding, and a lot of funding is handed out based on vibes. A good CEO makes friends with the assholes handing out money. That’s hard to replace with AI, probably.

  On the other hand, CEOs routinely make stupid decisions. Maybe cutting that out makes up for the loss in funding opportunities?

  Also this capitalist hellscape sucks. labor should unite instead of letting business idiots take most of the value they create.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ed Zitron wrote a blog post I’ve been thinking about, where he said that a lot of decisions are made by “business idiots” now. People that don’t really use or understand the product, and don’t really understand the users or their needs. It’s an interesting read, even though the guy is rather verbose: wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When I tell people I don't know the answer but where they can find it and they don't go and read where I told them to read.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see what you did there and I’m not going to fully fall for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I spend too much time here because I knew what that was before I clicked it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I cheat on as many people as I want to⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can do non-monogamy without cheating. I know many people who do so.